Thanks for the pic, Bob, I think of Ted every day.  Still miss him so much.  The folks who made it to our Bash in 2016 certainly got a taste of his fine work set out in the shop Saturday night.

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Thanks Tom, had to do it twice to remember how to do single point threads.  Good deal for everyone.

Nice job BB.
Always a nail biter single point threading up to a shoulder, although there are ways around it.🤞

Yup, Rudi.  They tell you to run the machine in reverse and start at the relief butt (TS&T) with a screw-on chuck I get a bit nerval about that.  I just turn a relief at the upper end and engage the back gear to run it real slow.  Disengaging the split nut stops it just fine...no issues.
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Yepp!!   And the reason I wanted a stud over just welding two studs together (which I do believe I could have sucessfully done) was so it would be perfectly straight and not have any lean on one fork or the other. 

Valve springs, strut springs, and such just ain't really a place you want to be playin.

Oh! My eye!